Can anyone recommend literature for identifying British Clavulinopsis, please? Is helveola the only yellow one with warty spores?
John Bratton
I can’t help John. But I think you’d be better adding an Ob. (if you have a pic - though any pic would do) in the normal way and asking there, as there are not many people subscribing to the Forum.
Nice treatise here http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/clavulinopsis-fusiformis.php
PDFs here http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/library/keys/index-phpcid95/
I don’t have a photo to post. In the Good Old Days we had a fungus forum and such questions would have got an answer and maybe a link to a pdf. Or am I imagining that?
Buczacki thinks it is, though C laeticolor has irregularly subspherical spores. Looking at the checklist, there don’t seem to be any obscure species to worry about. Could I ask how you get spores from these? I have specimens about 1mm diameter (and rather short as I didn’t notice them until I’d mowed the lawn!) which dry up in no time.
Thanks. I just left it lying on a microscope slide overnight and the spores were abundant, but my specimen was probably more mature. It was thicker than 1 mm.
John
Though not much thicker - I measured it last night at around 1.1 mm. But it has been drying since 15 Sept so may have been thicker when fresh.
There is a key to Clavulinopsis towards the end of this pdf. from the BMS website - http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/files/8413/3026/1210/BMS_KEYS_Part_2.pdf
Thanks very much. I’ve downloaded it. There is a Clavulina key there too, which I was also looking for.